Example sentences of "and [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That should give Mait pause for thought , ’ he muttered , straightening and stepping back into the cemetery to retrieve his umbrella . |
| 2 | He dismissed her by turning and wading back round the corner of the wall . |
| 3 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 4 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 5 | Outside I could hear rain falling upon the fire-escape and bouncing back against the window . |
| 6 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 7 | This suffering may be associated with rapidly changing configurations of personality , being a new person one day , and sinking back into the old self on the next , only to find that some minor episode puts the new organisation of self again in a position of regnancy . |
| 8 | But at last she was back in her room , and sinking back against the closed door in a grief that was too deep for tears . |
| 9 | He crossed the road , pausing on the kerb and looking back towards the Lancia . |
| 10 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 11 | And with that he started off , crossing the road and going back down the hill . |
| 12 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 13 | He uses scientific methodology for both processes — forming hypotheses , testing them , and going back to the drawing board . |
| 14 | Head to the viewing platform and then turn right through the wood and go back to the field turning right down the hard path and going back to the Castle Bolton signpost . |
| 15 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 16 | And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it . |
| 17 | Er about drugs and going back to the drugs , you mentioned about valium and problems |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer . |
| 19 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 20 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 21 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 22 | For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged . |
| 23 | Twenty minutes later they were on their way , the three of them piling into the big black Mercedes and heading back to the railway station . |
| 24 | ‘ Christ , they were quick off the mark , Piper , ’ remarked the driver , swinging the jeep round and heading back along the road to Brigade H.Q. Nos. 3 and 6 Commando were pulling out as we entered the village ; no sign of 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 26 | One of these was ‘ war communism ’ , a centralised model based upon commands and coercion and harking back to the militarised society of the civil war years . |
| 27 | Here it was : and starting here he was both fucking and getting back into the tree . |
| 28 | I was happy in the work because of the acceptance by the government of my own interpretation of the task of public relations , namely not to be a propagandist agency acting on the assumption that the government was always infallibly right ; not only to be an information service about government policies , plans and activities ; but to be an agency interpreting the government to the people , and feeding back to the government the reactions and feelings of the people . |
| 29 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 30 | Devolution , either from county or district , would mean more local information and reporting back to the relevant authorities by the parish clerk and her assistant . |